About Bola

Bola Aremu is the founder and CEO of Powerhouse Consulting, where she partners with corporate leaders to help them achieve multi-million-dollar growth through marketing, sales alignment, and product development.

A strategist at the intersection of insight, execution and leadership, Bola’s specialties include product launches, partnership management and P/L supervision.

With more than two decades of experience driving revenue transformation, Bola is known for her ability to bring clarity to complex organizational challenges. Her career spans aviation, energy, consumer packaged goods, financial services, and business services—industries where she has repeatedly delivered results in high-stakes, highly regulated, and highly competitive environments.

In her corporate career, Bola has served in strategic leadership roles at The Boeing Company, where she has: managed multimillion-dollar product portfolios, led global go-to-market strategies for aviation lubricants, overseen complex supplier partnerships with ExxonMobil, Shell, and BP, and led an international team supporting customized solutions for commercial, government, and business aviation customers.

Prior to Boeing, Bola held key roles at Pacific Gas & Electric, where she led integrated marketing strategy for more than 350,000 customers and developed a comprehensive GTM plan for the West Coast Energy Center in San Francisco. At the Port of Oakland, she drove the launch of the airport’s first regularly scheduled nonstop B787 service to Europe, generating over $100M in travel impact within the first year while improving customer wait time experience by 33%.

Her earlier work at BlackRock and United Airlines solidified her expertise in product marketing, revenue management, sales support and event strategy—culminating in strategic wins such as exceeding $300M revenue goals and launching high-margin aviation products.

Bola holds a Master’s in Integrated Marketing from Northwestern University, a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from the University of Illinois, certificates in Corporate Finance and Social Media Marketing Strategy from UC Berkeley and Cornell respectively and completed coursework in international marketing & strategic management in fashion from Bocconi University in Italy. She is fluent in the language of business building—and conversational in Italian and Spanish.

Born and raised in Chicago, education, resilience and faith were instilled in her. In her spare time, Bola enjoys hiking, HIIT training, investing and football. Having traveled to over 35 countries, she is a global travel connoisseur and believes that “travel is her addiction and her therapy”.

Connect with Bola on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bolaaremu